Welcome To The Writer's Alley

Every aspiring and published author takes a different road to publication.

Some travel the Hard Road, others the Long Road.
Very few glide down Easy Street.

Most stumble or crawl down several streets along the way to Published Central at the heart of town.

Along the way, authors gain knowledge and experience in town, by visiting places like:

The Book Shop – filled with millions of books on the art, craft, and technique of writing.

A Novel Idea – The creation place, where ideas begin and form into multi-layered plots.

Character Arts and Craft Store – Designing, developing, and dreaming believable characters into flesh-and-blood visions on a page.

Twice Read Tales- where editing and revision become your teachers

BookEnds Desserts – deciding how to end your story with the best bang, most closure, and greatest satisfaction.

Dee Script Shunn Floral Shop – the finishing touches to your manuscript that adds the colored ink to the black and white picture. The decoration of your words to hold all the beautiful ideas together in a lovely word picture.

Contest Corner – a small shop in the middle of town, usually overshadowed by larger buildings, but a great place to gain experience, glean wisdom from veterans in the field, and toughen your skin for critiques.

Second Chance Coffee House – a place to find chocolate, coffee, mocha, or anything else to encourage an author who feels the sting of rejection, the frustration of a tough contest critique, the loneliness of an author’s life, or just needs some good fellowship.

The Prints and the Blog CyberNook– Marketing and learning the ropes of cyberspace – along with great opportunities for research and building relationships in the writing world.

Those of us here at The Writer’s Alley, know what it’s like to walk down the streets to publication. We’re on it with you. Come join us as we develop this site to encourage you by sharing our paths, knowledge, struggles and triumphs.

If you’ve ever visited the wonderful blog called Seekerville at http://seekerville.blogspot.com/, the Writer’s Alley hopes to build the same type of encouragement and support for aspiring (and published) authors.

Help us get started up the right alley with suggestions about topics. We have a lot of our own ideas, but we’d love to hear from you too.

Welcome to The Writer’s Alley.